Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a new Pecock shell the Rutgers boat is considered the best ever launched since rowing began as a sport on the Raritan. A light crew (172 1/2), the Scarlet blades have been whipped into shape by Chuck Legg, Washington oarsman and onetime Princeton coach...
Upshot was that Mr. Manson reconsidered. Last week Brancusi's egg and Arp's shape rested, duty free, in the bright little gallery of Guggenheim Jeune. Meanwhile, sprightly J. B. Manson had regretfully announced his resignation, at 58, as director of the Tate Gallery. Said he: "My doctor has warned me that my nerves will not stand any further strain. ... I have begun to have blackouts, in which my actions become automatic. Sometimes these periods last several hours. . . . I had one of these blackouts at an official luncheon in Paris recently, and startled guests by suddenly crowing like...
...past winter, acts were thought up, men and animals bought up, the show licked into shape. Besides a whole battery of rodeo and roughrider acts, McCoy devised an elaborate pageant that would give a new generation a vision of the old West-cowboys & Indians, stagecoaches & covered wagons, ranches & Indian villages...
...Science last week Dr. Weidenreich described in detail the first thighbones of Sinanthropus, discovered by Dr. Pei among last season's material collected from the Choukoutien caves. One piece was twelve inches long, the other two inches. There were several human features, including 1) general shape; 2) a groove near the knee end. On the other hand the Sinanthropus thighbones differed from those of modern humans in 1) greater stoutness; 2) faint curvature; 3) decreasing thickness toward the knee end. In these same features it differed also from the Java creature's thighbone. On this basis Dr. Weidenreich...
Yellow Season: a big canvas painted in a monotone of mustard yellow with twiggy lines here and there, the shape of a pump indicated, some clothes on a line, gradually more lines taking shape as backyard impedimenta, hints of flowers, and finally a perspective of May sunshine up a hill with slashes of blue sky over...